When the Diagnosis is Endometrial Cancer–Questions to Ask the Doctor

When a woman is diagnosed with endometrial cancer, these are the questions she and her loved ones might ask the physician. The links below are to the National Cancer Institute’s Physicians Data Query.

What is the cellular classification of my endometrial cancer?

What is the stage of my endometrial cancer?

What  treatment do you recommend for my Stage I endometrial cancer?

What treatment do you recommend for my Stage II endometrial cancer?

What treatment do you recommend for my Stage III endometrial cancer?

What treatment do you recommend for my Stage IV endometrial cancer?

What treatment do you recommend for my recurrent endometrial cancer?

Additional Resources:

Uterine Neoplasms, J Natl Compr Canc Netw 2009;7:498-531,full text pdf. 

How low is low enough? Evaluation of various risk-assessment models for lymph node metastasis in endometrial cancer: a Korean multicenter study, J Gynecol Oncol. 2012 Oct;23(4):251-6. doi: 10.3802/jgo.2012.23.4.251. Epub 2012 Sep 19.

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